With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
Erich Maria RemarqueI am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.
Erich Maria RemarqueThrough the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
Erich Maria Remarque